The Nature of Concepts

Evolution, Structure and Representation
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-415-17963-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

Reihe: Frontiers of Cognitive Science

The Nature of Concepts examines a central issue for all the main disciplines in cognitive science: how the human mind creates and passes on to other human minds a concept. An excellent cross-disciplinary collection with contributors including Steven Pinker, Andy Clarke and Henry Plotkin.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Van Loocke, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: the structure and representation of concepts 1 The nature of human concepts: evidence from an unusual source 2The modularity of language: some empirical considerations 3 The perspective of situated and self-organizing cognition in cognitive psychology 4 Complex systems methods in cognitive systems and there presentation of environmental information 5 Some psychological mechanisms of culture 6 Neural expectations: a possible evolutionary path from manual skills to language 7 Is “mind” a scientific kind? 8 Evolution and self-evidence 9 The development of scientific concepts and their embodiment in the representational activities of cognitive systems: neural representation spaces, theory spaces, and paradigmatic shifts 10 The concept of disease: structure and change

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Van Loocke is a Senior Research Associate of the Fund for Scientific Research (Flanders/Belgium) and Visiting Professor in Epistemology at the University of Ghent, Belgium.